Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Geode Hunting - Memorial Day

We had a plan for our Memorial Day a few weeks in advance. Liam had been wanting to go geode hunting for a few months, so we set it in stone (ha). From what we could tell, it would take 90 minutes for us to drive to Dugway's geode beds. We also thought the beds would be rich with geodes. And don't forget we thought this would be soooo fun!

We estimated wrong on all of the above. BUT, we did have a full day of family time together. And that was a nice bonus.

So, it took 3 hours for us to get to the geode beds. LOTS of dirt and gravel roads along the old Pony Express. Gorgeous sites all around... blue skies, billowing clouds, glorious mountains. I took a lot of photos out the windows - including the sun roof. Here's one example.

We arrived and there were only a few other crazy people parked out there digging in the dirt. We walked right past their claimed spots and did a little hiking...

Did a little exploring....

Did a little digging...

Did some posing...

And ultimately got skunked on finding any geodes...

Dad had to bribe Liam with purchasing geodes online to get him to stop digging. (A week later he cracked 12 mail order rocks. Dad even got out a black light to have another perspective on their cool white insides!)

On the way back we bumped along the dirt and gravel road. We took a potty break at the Pony Express Post and took a look around.

And did some more posing....

We all got back into the car for a long ride home. And I took a few more photos...

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